The Pesenti Foundation has been engaged in the design and supervision of the construction project of the Metiyagane Training Center in Sri Lanka.
The “Aid for Sri Lanka – A future for children” project, launched in 2005 via a post-tsunami fundraising and support intervention in collaboration with the local Salesian Congregation, ended with the construction of a Vocational Training Centre with laboratories, lodgings and refectory.
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The Centre is located in Metiyagane, in the western region of the island, at a distance from the coast and 55 km northeast of the city of Negombo.
It is a technical vocational training school, focusing mainly on the construction trade and aiming to train resources to meet the predictably high demand for local infrastructures and dwellings.
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The Vocational Training Centre, hosting about three hundred students, 200 of whom will be granted board and lodgings on the premises, provides nationally recognized vocational programs.
A modern college in a developing country giving direction and hope to new generations.
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